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Marbrook Foundation

Its FY2020 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$288k
Granted FY2020
26
Grants FY2020
1
States reached
$23k
Largest
01What you fund
0197% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172020.

Philanthropy$439kArts & Culture$350kEnvironment$337kEducation$324kHuman Services$257kCommunity Improvement$141kYouth Development$135kCivil Rights$109kOther$0
02FY2020 · 26 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF MN FOUNDATION$22,500
PROJECT SUCCESS$15,000
IMMIGRANT LAW CENTER OF MN$12,250
PROJECT FOR PRIDE IN LIVING$12,000
WORLD SAVVY$12,000
GREEN CARD VOICES$12,000
INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MINNESOTA$12,000
MICROGRANTS$10,000
COMMUNIDADES LATINAS UNIDAS EN SERVICIO (CLUES)$10,000
KA JOOG NONPROFIT ORGANIZATION$10,000
WOMENS INITIATIVE FOR SELF EMPOWERMENT (WISE) INC$10,000
THE SANNEH FOUNDATION INC$10,000
WOMEN'S FOUNDATION OF MINNESOTA$10,000
COALITION OF ASIAN AMERICAN LEADERS$10,000
LA OPORTUNIDAD INC$10,000
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–20, $259k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%INTERCAMBIO UNITING COMMUNITIES: $2k → 12%INTERCAMBIO UNITING COMMUNITIES: $2k → 12%INTERCAMBIO UNITING COMMUNITIES: $1k → 12%CENTRO TYRONE GUZMAN: $20k → 11%PROJECT FOR PRIDE IN LIVING: $15k → 11%PROJECT FOR PRIDE IN LIVING: $12k → 11%CENTRO TYRONE GUZMAN: $10k → 11%CENTRO TYRONE GUZMAN: $10k → 11%INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MINNESOTA: $15k → 14%INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MINNESOTA: $15k → 14%LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICE OF MN: $15k → 14%INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MINNESOTA: $12k → 14%LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICE OF MN: $10k → 14%LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICE OF MN: $10k → 14%DAILY WORK: $10k → 14%AMHERST H WILDER FOUNDATION: $1k → 14%DAILY WORK: $10k → 14%KAREN ORGANIZATION OF MINNESOTA: $13k → 14%KAREN ORGANIZATION OF MINNESOTA: $10k → 14%KAREN ORGANIZATION OF MINNESOTA: $10k → 14%APPETITE FOR CHANGE: $1k → 11%APPETITE FOR CHANGE: $1k → 11%NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $20k → 11%NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $15k → 11%NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $10k → 11%YWCA OF MINNEAPOLIS: $10k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

VT
MN
NY
OR
OH
CT
CA
CO
VA
HI

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

81%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.7M · 77 repeat orgs$399k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +72% since the first grant, against +30% for the ones you funded once.

77 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2020, 56 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

77
54

Total granted

$1.7M
$359k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+72%
+30%

Still filing today

74%
78%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2020, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20
Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesEnvironmentInternationalYouth DevelopmentOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • CM
    CONSERVATION MINNESOTA
    3× · 2017–2019 · $84k · revenue +20%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION
    4× · 2017–2020 · $78k · revenue +105%
  • MC
    MINNESOTA CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL ADVOCACY
    2× · 2018–2019 · $69k · revenue +126%

Funded once

  • SC
    SIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2018 · $35k · revenue -70%
  • F
    FRESHWATER
    one grant, 2019 · $25k
  • 3V
    350 VERMONT INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $20k · revenue +222%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Minnesota Business Partnership

The minnesota business partnership's mission is to maintain a high quality of life for all minnesotans by ensuring that the state's economy remains strong, globally competitive and its prospects for growth bright by working with elected…

2
Minnesota Council on Foundations

MCF is a vibrant philanthropic community connecting, strengthening and mobilizing the power of philanthropy to advance prosperity and equity.

3
African Development Center

Grow businesses, build wealth and increase reinvestement in the african communities of minnesota

Human Services
4
St Paul Transportation Management Organization

Move minnesota leads the movement for an equitable and sustainable transportation system that puts people first. we are passionate about connecting communities, ending the climate crisis, expanding access to jobs and resources, and…

Environment
5
Minnesota Chamber of Commerce and Industry

The minnesota chamber of commerce proactively leads the business community statewide to: advance pro-business, responsible minnesota public policy that creates jobs and grows the econony; provde member services to address evolving business…

6
Mixed Blood Theatre Company

Mixed Blood Theatre Company uses theater to disrupt injustice. We are a social justice organization catalyzing action and change through art. Our work is guided by deep community engagement and rooted in radical hospitality.

7
Arts Midwest Incorporated

Arts Midwest works collaboratively with private and public arts supporters to support, inform, and celebrate arts organizations and creative communities across the Midwest. Our mission is to build unprecedented opportunity across the…

Arts & Culture
8
Minnesota Fringe Festival

Minnesota fringe connects adventurous artists with adventurous audiences by creating open, supportive forums for free and diverse artistic expression.

Arts & Culture
9
Minnesota Medical Association

To be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state and the best place to practice.

10
Minneapolis Downtown Council

To create an extraordinary downtown minneapolis, applying the core values of leadership, collaboration, advocacy and innovation.

11
Minnesota Women Lawyers

To advance the success of women attorneys and strive for a just society.

12
Minneapolis Regional Chamber of Commerce

Creating powerful advocacy to enhance economic vitality in the minneapolis-st. paul region.

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Sanneh Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Tigerlion Arts. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyLegal Aid & Immigration Ser…Education Equity LeadershipPublic University Foundatio…Environmental Advocacy Orga…Land Conservation Organizat…Professional Ballet Compani…Pregnancy Support ServicesFallen First Responder Supp…Muslim Community Organizati…Asian American Advocacy & H…Senior Support ServicesGovernment Accountability R…Urban Agriculture & Food Ac…Public School District Foun…Developmental Disabilities …Christian Missionary Organi…South Asian Cultural and Sp…Wildlife Rehabilitation Cen…Substance Abuse TreatmentVeteran Support ServicesCommunity Health CentersFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Public Library SupportIndependent K-8 SchoolsCommunity Arts OrganizationsCommunity Foundations
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 34 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number17%0%<5yr12%2%5–10yr20%24%10–20yr17%24%20–35yr16%23%35–55yr18%26%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value17%0%<5yr12%1%5–10yr20%19%10–20yr17%23%20–35yr16%37%35–55yr18%21%55yr+

The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 3% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
3%3/115
the rest of the field
10%
3,826/38,874

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

112 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 112 of the 138 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
37
Early backer (in before they grew)
106/112
Grantees still filing
86/112
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

PILLSBURY UNITED COMMUNITIES — $35,000 · OtherIMMIGRANT LAW CENTER OF MINNESOTA INC — $32,250 · OtherCENTER FOR THE VICTIMS OF TORTURE — $30,500 · OtherKA JOOG NONPROFIT ORGANIZATION — $30,000 · OtherEMERGE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT — $25,000 · OtherMORE MULTICULTURAL SCHOOL FOR EMPOWERMENT — $25,000 · OtherFRESHWATER — $25,000 · OtherLIFETRACK RESOURCES INC — $24,000 · OtherWOMENS INITIATIVE FOR SELF EMPOWERMENT (WISE) INC — $22,500 · Other+57 more — $421,500 · Other+57 moreCHARLOTTESVILLE AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $395,524 · PhilanthropyCHARLOTTESVILLE AREA …MICROGRANTS — $30,000 · PhilanthropyMICROGRANTSNEXUS COMMUNITY PARTNERS — $25,000 · PhilanthropyNEXUS COMMUNITY PARTN…+2 more — $12,000 · PhilanthropyMinnPost — $45,000 · Arts & CultureMinnPostGREEN CARD VOICES — $44,500 · Arts & CultureGREEN CARD VOICE…TIGERLION ARTS — $38,500 · Arts & CultureTIGERLION ARTSRAGAMALA DANCE — $31,000 · Arts & CultureRAGAMALA DANCETWIN CITIES PUBLIC TELEVISION INC — $22,500 · Arts & CultureTWIN CITIES PUBL…MINNESOTA MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART — $20,000 · Arts & CultureMINNESOTA MUSEUM…ANANYA DANCE THEATRE — $15,000 · Arts & CultureTHEATER LATTE DA — $12,500 · Arts & Culture+17 more — $134,500 · Arts & Culture+17 moreCONSERVATION MINNESOTA — $83,500 · EnvironmentCONSERVATION …MINNESOTA CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL ADVOCACY — $69,000 · EnvironmentMINNESOTA CEN…FRESH ENERGY — $55,000 · EnvironmentFRESH ENERGYSIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION — $35,000 · EnvironmentSIERRA CLUB F…WILDERNESS INQUIRY INC — $30,000 · EnvironmentWILDERNESS IN…350 VERMONT INC — $20,000 · Environment350 VERMONT I…+3 more — $7,000 · EnvironmentUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION — $77,500 · EducationUNIVERSITY O…PROJECT SUCCESS — $59,500 · EducationPROJECT SUCC…HIAWATHA ACADEMIES — $40,000 · EducationHIAWATHA ACA…WALLIN EDUCATION PARTNERS — $30,000 · EducationWALLIN EDUCA…MACKINTOSH ACADEMY — $14,000 · EducationAFRICAN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT SOLUTIONS — $10,000 · EducationAUGSBURG UNIVERSITY — $10,000 · Education+8 more — $30,500 · Education+8 moreNEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC — $45,000 · Human ServicesNEIGHBORHOO…INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MINNESOTA — $42,000 · Human ServicesINTERNATION…CENTRO TYRONE GUZMAN — $40,000 · Human ServicesCENTRO TYRO…LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICE OF MINNESOTA — $35,000 · Human ServicesLUTHERAN SO…KAREN ORGANIZATION OF MINNESOTA — $32,500 · Human ServicesKAREN ORGAN…PROJECT FOR PRIDE IN LIVING INC — $27,000 · Human ServicesPROJECT FOR…Daily Work — $20,000 · Human ServicesDaily WorkYWCA OF MINNEAPOLIS — $10,000 · Human Services+3 more — $7,500 · Human ServicesWorld Savvy — $47,000 · InternationalCAPI USA — $45,000 · InternationalThe Advocates For Human Rights — $20,000 · InternationalIraqi and American Reconciliation Project — $17,500 · InternationalWELLSHARE INTERNATIONAL — $10,000 · International+2 more — $5,000 · International
Other$670,750Philanthropy$462,524Arts & Culture$363,500Environment$299,500Education$271,500Human Services$259,000International$144,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCHARLOTTESVILLE AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $395,524 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetCONSERVATION MINNESOTA — $83,500 over 3y, 3.2% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION — $77,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMINNESOTA CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL ADVOCACY — $69,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetPROJECT SUCCESS — $59,500 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetFRESH ENERGY — $55,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetWorld Savvy — $47,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetMinnPost — $45,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetCAPI USA — $45,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC — $45,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetGREEN CARD VOICES — $44,500 over 3y, 11% of budgetINTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MINNESOTA — $42,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCENTRO TYRONE GUZMAN — $40,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetHIAWATHA ACADEMIES — $40,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTIGERLION ARTS — $38,500 over 3y, 11% of budgetSIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION — $35,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPILLSBURY UNITED COMMUNITIES — $35,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetLUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICE OF MINNESOTA — $35,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetKAREN ORGANIZATION OF MINNESOTA — $32,500 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetIMMIGRANT LAW CENTER OF MINNESOTA INC — $32,250 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetRAGAMALA DANCE — $31,000 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetMICROGRANTS — $30,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetKA JOOG NONPROFIT ORGANIZATION — $30,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetWALLIN EDUCATION PARTNERS — $30,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetWILDERNESS INQUIRY INC — $30,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetPROJECT FOR PRIDE IN LIVING INC — $27,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetEMERGE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT — $25,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetNEXUS COMMUNITY PARTNERS — $25,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetLIFETRACK RESOURCES INC — $24,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTWIN CITIES PUBLIC TELEVISION INC — $22,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDaily Work — $20,000 over 2y, 6.0% of budgetThe Advocates For Human Rights — $20,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetTHE SANNEH FOUNDATION — $20,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD MINNESOTA NORTH DAKOTA SOUTH DAKOTA — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMONBOND COMMUNITIES — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMINNESOTA MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART — $20,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetThe Banyan Foundation — $15,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetPLAYWORKS EDUCATION ENERGIZED — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMACKINTOSH ACADEMY — $14,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHEATER LATTE DA — $12,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetKHYENTSE FOUNDATION — $11,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ARC GREATER TWIN CITIES — $11,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNaropa University — $11,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCHARLOTTESVILLE TOMORROW — $10,500 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGUTHRIE THEATER FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Cedar Cultural Center Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetLA OPORTUNIDAD INC — $10,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Marbrook FoundationMN121.4× affinity56 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Marbrook Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · The McKnight Foundation · Fr Bigelow Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · Target Foundation · Greater Twin Cities United Way · Mortenson Family Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Margaret a Cargill Foundation · Propel Nonprofits

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Marbrook Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 20%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 46%
  • Deschutes Land Trust46% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
36report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY2025

Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Marbrook Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Marbrook Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 138 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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